•• brad allen williams

Brad Allen Williams is a guitarist, producer and creative person who splits time between Los Angeles, where he lives, and New York City, where he’s a partner in The Bunker Studio. He’s toured and recorded with artists like Brittany Howard, Bilal, Nate Smith and Kinfolk, and Cory Henry, among others. He’s performed on Grammy-winning recordings and major feature film soundtracks, and has written and produced material for numerous indie artists.

RELEASE DATE: 2.10.23
CATALOG #: CF009
DIGITAL $10 | VINYL LP $27.99

Limited pressing of 500, 150g black vinyl, mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and manufactured by Record Industry Inc (RTI). Vinyl is ready to ship and includes a digital download as soon as the album is released.

On œconomy, Brad Allen Williams finds new creative potential in the guitar and explores the interstices between (and intersections of) jazz, neoclassical, and experimental music.

Perhaps the most intoxicating element of œconomy: recontextualization of the artist’s primary instrument manifests not as academic exercise, but as artistic springboard. It’s one thing to subvert tropes for novelty, but the grinding psychedelia of “Boomer” and restrained touches that accompany the fugue-like beauty of “Scape” serve excellent songwriting.

Like all Colorfield releases, œconomy was born from an improvisatory spirit that reflects the label’s mission. Expert performances by The Section Quartet and a few virtuosic cameos by drummer Mark Guiliana represent the only instruments not played by Williams himself.

TRACKS: 1. prelude to an artifice / 2. an artifice / 3. inner life / 4. pæan / 5. boomer / 6. tecnologia / 7. scape / 8. her sidebar (yield) / 9. œconomy / 10. halcyon